{"id":617425,"date":"2026-09-16T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/617425\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:14:08","slug":"new-measles-deaths-send-u-s-fatalities-to-decades-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/617425\/","title":{"rendered":"New measles deaths send U.S. fatalities to decades high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania health officials have confirmed two additional measles-associated deaths, bringing the total confirmed deaths in the state this year to four, and driving U.S. fatalities to the highest level in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Both individuals were unvaccinated, the Pennsylvania Department of Health said in a statement on Tuesday. One lived in Jefferson County, the other lived in Mifflin County. Additional identifying details won\u2019t be released, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths are a grim milestone in the return of a disease that the U.S. once largely considered vanquished. Pennsylvania hadn\u2019t recorded a measles-related death in 35 years before this summer; it has now reported four in a matter of weeks, as the state\u2019s outbreak has swelled to nearly 700 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania health officials have confirmed two additional measles-associated deaths, bringing the total confirmed deaths in the state this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46,13380,507,4374,17866],"class_list":["post-617425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-measles","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-u-s","tag-vaccinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}